@husstler: I remember reading an interview with Greg Marsh (Minnar's mechanic) who was saying that in their testing they started having serious problems with the fork binding/flexing at around a 63 degree head-angle

I also think it's also a way for big brands trying to hurt smaller brands, it's no big deal to trek or specialized to produce new molds and tooling every year to update to boost or 'metric' shocks or whatever else but smaller brands can't amortize stuff that quickly. People on this site obviously see through a lot of the BS but for someone who bikes but doesn't really follow the industry it's an easy sale to say something is the latest 'upgraded' standard that other bikes they are looking at don't have

@ybsurf: they were pretty bad (unreliable) when they first came out and that reputation has stuck with them. Modern alloy nips are just as good as brass in most situations and save some rotational weight

The bill isn't even to allow mtb into wilderness, it's to revoke the blanket ban on mtb in the wilderness and allow land managers and local communities to make their own decisions about mtb access to wilderness. Just because you think mtb wilderness might not be right in Colorado doesn't mean it might not work in some other more remote state